Sentence examples for rather than widen from inspiring English sources

"Rather than widen things, they narrow them.

Rather than widen the street, community leaders say, it would be simpler and more effective to remove parking spaces along one side.

Then you are more likely to close the gap of connection rather than widen it.

Rather than widen the existing road further, the Maryland State Roads Commission decided to build a new Philadelphia Road, later known as Pulaski Highway, as a divided highway on a new alignment between Baltimore and Aberdeen and to expand the newly relocated highway through Aberdeen to Havre de Grace to a four-lane divided highway.

Our findings therefore suggest that the resource allocation policy contributed to this reduction in absolute inequalities and may have helped relative inequalities remain constant rather than widen.

It also finds some nations where the gap between rich and poor narrowed, rather than widened, as reliance on trade grew.

Rather than widening the game's horizons, as Death of a Gentleman reveals, this vast influx of money has led to a greater concentration of power and influence.

A memo released by Mr. Romney's pollster, Neil Newhouse, suggests that the margin between Mr. Romney and Mr. Obama has been narrowing rather than widening in the polls despite the attacks.

However, road construction has encountered serious opposition from the country's environmentalist movement, and in inhabited areas the roads sometimes have been narrowed rather than widened to reduce traffic speed.

Mr Cameron concluded that promoting a more rigorous inspection regime, rather than widening the market in schools, was both more reassuring to parents and an easier reform to implement.That is not unimportant.

And the victory for ITV's adoption reunion series Long Lost Family felt like a preference for television that moistens the viewers' eyes rather than widening them with surprise at something new.